Clinical significance of urine myoglobin in high voltage electrical burns.

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2013-04
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Electrical burns constitute a relatively large proportion of burns . Electrical current causes complex, unprecedented and unpredicted injuries. Serious tissue damage and mortality is caused by high voltage among all types of electrical burns . Myoglobinuria induced acute renal failure is a potentially lethal consequence of electrical injury. The present study was conducted to evaluate the role of urine myoglobin in the early prediction of acute renal failure in electrical burns. Study includes 21 patients of high volatage electrical burns underwent four different Renal parameters i.e blood urea, serum creatinine, serum potassium and urine myoglobin levels. Blood urea , and serum potassium levels were deranged in five patients of high voltage electrical burns who went into acute renal failure. Whereas urine myoglobin levels were deranged in all twenty one patients with high voltage electrical burns.
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Myoglobin, Acute renal failure, Electrical burns
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Narayan G Amar Raghu, Deepthi S K, Singh Jagdeep. Clinical significance of urine myoglobin in high voltage electrical burns. International Journal of Applied Biology and Pharmaceutical Technology. 2013 Apr-June; 4(2): 241-243.